Kennebunk Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, I’m looking at the charts for the next couple of weeks and, honestly, it’s a pretty grim stretch ahead for Kennebunk Beach. If you’re hoping for a solid session, you’re going to need some patience.

The water temperature here is sitting around 64°, which is just about average for this time of year, nothing unusual there.

The problem is that for the first thirteen days, it’s just a constant run of poor surf conditions. The swell is tiny, mostly under 3 feet, and the wind is rarely your friend. You’ll get a few brief moments of glassy conditions on Saturday, August 3rd morning, with a 3ft SSE swell and that calm, glassy wind, but the energy is weak at just 64, and the period is short, so the waves will be fat and lack punch. The rest of that week and the next are plagued by onshore and cross-onshore winds, with periods dipping as low as 4 seconds, making for choppy, messy surf. The combined swell energy during this period is mostly in the low double digits, rarely breaking into triple digits, which tells you just how weak it is.

There’s a long gap of nothing worth paddling out for until we get to Friday, August 14th. That morning, the clouds part and we see a sudden jump in the surf. The swell height comes up to 6ft from the south, with a combined energy of 258, which is the only real bump in the whole forecast. The wind is glassy, and the period is 6 seconds, so it’s a short-period wind swell, but that’s the best we’re going to get. It’s surfable, but the conditions are described as very ordinary.

After that, the swell drops back down and the rest of the weekend is small and weak again.

So, if you’re desperate, mark your calendar for Friday, August 14th morning. That’s your one shot at something with a little size, but don’t expect perfection. Everything else is a write-off unless the forecasts change. For an area like this, it’s a dry spell, but it’s not unheard of.

Rusty.

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